ATDTDA (33) - pregnancy in Bulgaria or "The Emancipation of Dissonance"

[David Payne]

Robin – I seriously dug that Bulgarian choral YouTube’d music you linked us to earlier (some dissonance there that was so perfect!), and I hope you don’t confuse the exclamation point in my previous email with flippancy.

Yes, I’ve certainly heard Schoenberg, so lonely and lovely, a certain ghost with forlorn whimsy, though I have not heard Pierrot Lunaire.

I claim childish ignorance towards orchestral music (so please forgive me if I should’ve said chamber music), but Schoenberg seems hardly the death of music – he strikes me more a ghostly muse, full of suggestion.

Personally, I prefer Stravinsky, whose 1910 _Firebird_ probably felt equally alien to the Balkan traditionalist of the time (assuming, silly-ly perhaps, there were such a thing…).

A more whimsical suggestion for the death of Balkan music in the "Belgin Congo" of 1910 is the migration of these here musicians to Amerika:

“_Tamburitza! - Hot String Band Music From The Balkans To America 1910-1950_:  Description An extensive 2-CD collection of hot Balkan string band music as it traveled from its origins to the USA, where most of these 78s were recorded, between 1910 and 1950. This unique string band music features amazing virtuoso playing by the top musicians who defined the genre.” (http://www.venerablemusic.com/catalog/TitleDetails.asp?TitleID=12447)

On Sat, 31 May 2008 (01:53:53 +0000), Robin (robinlandseadel at comcast.net) wrote:

> Of course it's a dark vision, ever heard any Schoenberg?
>
> Of course, Schoenberg/Serialism/Death Of Music was the first
> thing to come to mind. Was it Pierrot Lunaire [1912] that first
> came to mind? Note as well:
>
> During the summer of 1910, Schoenberg wrote his
> Harmonielehre (Theory of Harmony, Schoenberg 1922),
> which to this day remains one of the most influential
> music-theory books.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg
>
> Don't forget that this thread extends into GR. I'm voting for Rossini. myself.
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: David Payne 
>>
>> That's a dark vision, Robin!
>>
>> So -- 1910 as the advent of modernism?

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